just ignore and let this one die

Congrats on getting #100500

Oh how sad. What teenager couldn't relate to Holden Caulfield?





Go towards the light, Zelda will be there waiting for you



Along with Howard

Noooo....not the...oh well, I guess we'll at least watch the commercials. I think we can reach a compromise on "Blade Runner". That movie has enough special effects to satisfy the Geek, and I adore Harrison Ford.

Besides, I *have* to watch the Superbowl. My partner Cindi's favorite team, the Saints, are playing.

I didn't know Salinger was still alive, even. That was one strange book.

Beat me to it lol

lol, Josh...I get alerts from the Washington Post and CNN.

cbc bbc and cnn so there!

/goes to sign up.

SL on the new iPad

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsjU0K8QPhs

/me runs away

*ahem*

Well, actually . . . I couldn't. Maybe I already knew too many pimply little wannabe pseudo-philosophers when I was a teen. He struck me as kind of a drag. And his angst was definitely not of the "cool" kind.

Now, on the other hand, "For Esme, with Love and Squalor" is a BRILLIANT story.

It wasn't one of my favorite books, either, but boy, talk about an influential novel.

Angst is never cool. Confidence and strength are cool.

... rubs some on his face and runs away again.

I agree, I didn't relate to Holden Caulfield at all.

And I didn't like the book.

Oh piffle.

Confidence and strength certainly CAN be cool, but angst . . . just that right degree of introspection, brooding melancholy, and vulnerability . . .

Actually, angst can be not merely cool, but sometimes downright sexy.

/me wanders across the moor . . .

"Heathcliff!!!!"

/me hands Josh a Victorian frock coat and ruffly shirt.

Never mind, Josh. Just put this on, and all will be forgiven . . .

Me too!



I read Catcher in the Rye such a long time ago. I remember enjoying it but not too much else. Presumably Salinger wrote other books but if so I don't remember anything about them. I guess I could look it up.. Ok here we go:


I don't recognize any of these titles.
Anyway I'm glad he lived to a ripe old age and sorry he's gone.



Me: BBC and NYT



ROFL Lol Lol

That's fine. Call me when you need a jar opened.

Remember to put a lot of angst into opening the jar. The cool kind. She likes that.


(pretend you are Shatner, and the jar contains Khan within it)

Yeah.

And frock coats with frilly shirts.

That reminds me of that 'pirate' shirt on Seinfeld.

unrelated


oh wait, I'm trying to look cool, I'll put my collar up.

You all know me, and how I love to help newbies.

Last night I met one I took a real dislike to. I was willing to cut him a lot of slack because he was obviously not a native English speaker. But...

I was standing on my beach, camming here and there, wondering if there is room here for a dance floor, when I get a hug request.

I snap my camera back and here is Boy Next Door standing next to me. Rezdate of today. "Hello, Boy Next Door, and welcome to Second Life." "Thanks"

We exchanged pleasantries, and he offered friendship, and he asked about the hotel. I said, "I'll show it to you, follow me". After a bit of the usual newbie clumsiness, he did. He flew out of chat range and flitted about the building, then came back.

"It looks nice on outside, but the rooms are bad"
"Why is that?"
"There are no flirt beds in them"

Well, it was clear that the fellow was expecting someone to build a hotel and leave it wide open for anyone to come and bounce on the mattresses, but I stayed polite. I explained that the rooms are furnished by the people who rent them.

About this time my partner Eveline showed up. Boy Next Door asked, in IM this time, "You have sex with her?"
"What an impolite question! But yes, she is my wife here."
"Are you a man?"
"That is another impolite question. Please leave."

He flew off, and a minute later, de-Friended me.

I wish I'd followed my first impulse, and shot him when he sent the unsolicited Hug request.

(Of course, it's likely he was a new alt, not a true newbie. He understood IM and Friending and de-friending very well. But that would mean there's even LESS of an excuse for his behavior.)

NEWCOMERS: Second Life is a new world. You should remember that, and remember that all new lands have their own customs and ways of life. Tread lightly until you learn the local customs, and your Second Life will be a LOT happier.

Uhhhhhhhhhhhh . . .

You're close, Soji. Honestly, real close . . .

We make sexies now?

You got lindens, Big Boy? 700 lindens, one hour. You have good time yes!

Oh, I bet John Lennon will want to have a word with him!